Healthcare worker influenza declination form program

Interventions to increase seasonal influenza vaccine coverage in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis

“…Publication years ranged from 1992 to 2015. Most studies were BnA without a control group, [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][38][39][40][42][43][44][45][46]48 43,56 Five studies 35,41,54,58,71 evaluated separately more than one intervention on the same population or using the same controls, and 2 studies 27,28 were also performed on the same population. In two studies, 34,42 the same intervention was evaluated in independent populations or settings.…”

“…51 Of the uncontrolled BnA studies, none described particular concurrent events that could influence the post-intervention vaccination coverage, except in the 2 studies that reported a vaccine shortage during the previous year 43,56 ; although in these the comparison was made with the second-to-last year, the shortage might still have biased the post-intervention vaccination coverage. In five studies ascertainment of vaccination was via self-report, 29,44,46,61,62 and in 2 the method was unclear 59,67 ; the remaining studies used objective means to ascertain vaccination. Completeness or near-completeness of outcome data could be established for 6 studies, 27,28,39,45,62,69 while 3 studies used questionnaires and had a low (<50%) response rate, raising the possibility of selection bias.…”

The Cost of Interventions to Increase Influenza Vaccination: A Systematic Review

“…Eighteen articles met all eligibility criteria and together reported 29 unique interventions. [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] Twelve articles reported on one intervention, [36][37][38][39][40][41][42]46,[49][50][51]53 three articles reported on two interventions, 43,52 one article reported on three interventions, 47 and two articles reported on four interventions. 44,45 Twenty-three interventions focused on general populations [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][46][47][48][50][51]…”

Improving influenza vaccination rates of healthcare workers: a multipronged approach in Qatar

“…Such activities are in line with IV uptake among HCWs at a Malaysian teaching hospital, where workplace publicity was the main source of information about the vaccine (2). Our 2014/15 vaccination season was the first year to implement the declination form, which could have contributed to the increase in IV coverage, as previously witnessed in the USA (20).…”